FARMING AND FOXHUNTING 



A. H. : Now, let's hear what the head carter 

 has to say. You, Mr. Marchant, are in charge of 

 the horses on this big farm in Wiltshire. I hope 

 you have kept them hard at work during the spring 

 sowing ? 



W. M. : Yes, Mr. Hurd, we have been working 

 late many days this spring, sowing the corn, and I 

 expect we shall have to put in many overtime hours 

 during the hay and corn harvest. But horses are 

 like men, they get tired after working their usual 

 hours, and for that reason I am very pleased to see 

 the tractors doing a fair amount of this extra work. 

 We are particularly well equipped with machinery, 

 and we've been able to get on well with the job. 

 Of course a tractor don't get tired like the horses, 

 and what I say is, that it's a far easier job for a 

 man to ride on the seat of a tractor than it is to 

 walk behind a team of horses all day. 



A. H. : I am sure it is, but then we can't do 

 without your horse teams. 



W. M. : That's just as I see it, Mr. Hurd. We 

 have got so many jobs on the farm which only the 

 horses can do. There is waiting on the sheep and 

 cows in winter ; hauling the corn from the fields 

 in the summer is far better done by the horses ; 

 horse-hoeing, hay-turning and -raking can only be 

 done by the horse after all. But there is one job 

 I am pleased to see taken away from the horse 

 and that is hay-sweeping. That was a horse-killing 

 job, and I am glad to be rid of it. Then there is 

 another useful job for the horse in the winter, 

 hauling out the cow dung from the winter stalls. 



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